Opinion
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A Death in the Night
Opinion -“The evening of Thanksgiving, I kissed my son of 26 years, Shayne, goodnight for the last time,” Joanne Marshall recently told a roomful of reporters at a conference of Environmental Protection Agency whistleblowers. -
AFL-CIO Reiterates its Opposition to Kyoto Global Warming Accord
Opinion -Warning that the Kyoto Protocol on global warming represents a threat to the U.S. economy, the AFL-CIO has reaffirmed its opposition to the one-sided treaty. -
Bad Student’s Worst Nightmare: On-line Parents
Opinion -One feature of a new ParentLink Suite™ offered by Sprint to K-12 schools may be a bad student's worst nightmare come true. -
Class.com Offers High School Diploma over the Internet
Opinion -The fully accredited Independent Study High School has gone through a number of changes during the almost 70 years it has been owned and operated by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. -
Emissions Test Damage Reports Mount
Opinion -Illinois EPA (IEPA) reports it received 276 claims of automobile damage caused by the new IM-240 dynamometer emissions test in February and March. -
Energy Conference Casts Doubt on Alternative Fuels
Opinion -The Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the Department of Energy held its annual energy outlook conference on March 22. -
Getting Into the Education Market
Opinion -Just as companies like Barnes & Noble have responded to the changing nature of the retail marketplace by creating online superstores on the Internet, so also are some education providers making plans so that they are not passed by in the coming market -
Glacial Melting No More than a Drop in the Bucket
Opinion -While global warming alarmists warn that melting glaciers will cause sea levels to rise dramatically--a Smithsonian Institution exhibit depicts a submerged Washington Monument--Earth’s glaciers are in fact behaving quite differently. -
Mayors Seek to Improve Schools in Other Cities
Opinion -Spurred largely by Mayor Richard M. Daley’s apparent success in improving the Chicago public schools, mayors in several other cities seem eager to be given authority to take control of failing schools in their own urban areas. -
Parental Freedom in the States and Nation
Opinion -Arizona On March 15 the Arizona House passed HB 2279, a bill that would provide “Parental Choice Grants” to low-income parents, on a vote of 31 to 27__the minimum number of votes needed for passage. -
ParentLink™ in Operation
Opinion -Sprint's ParentLink™ Suite is in daily use in Unified School District 469 in Lansing, Kansas. Lansing children or their parents access ParentLink™ voice mail boxes an average of 1. -
Repealing the Laws of Mathematics
Opinion -A teacher union in North Carolina repealed the laws of mathematics with a simple majority vote, according to a recent report from Mike Antonucci. -
School Choice: A Catalyst for Change
Opinion -The clash over school choice in Milwaukee has attracted the attention of observers from across the United States for over a decade, but it recently also caught the eye of reporter Randall Denley from one of Canada's largest daily newspapers, The Ottawa -
States Devise Escape Routes from Failing Schools
Opinion -During 1999 more than ever before, governors, big-city mayors, and state legislators have taken over from policy analysts and public interest groups the leadership role in advocating school choice as a means of directly addressing the problem of -
Study: Private Trusts Preserve Land and Liberty
Opinion -Free from government mandates and cumbersome regulations, land conservation is best left to the private sector, where environmental concerns and individual liberty are able to thrive in harmony. -
Writing Sample from DC High School Graduate
Opinion -The following paper, presented exactly as it was written, was produced by a youth who is ostensibly a success story for the District of Columbia Public Schools--a student who graduated from high school with a diploma and is now enrolled in college, -
Writing, Spelling, and Math Problems
Opinion -How much of a problem can a minor spelling error be? -
What Works in Raising Student Achievement
Opinion -After hearing evidence of how parental choice programs can raise student achievement, some of those attending the November 1998 Wingspread conference in Racine, Wisconsin recommended that such efforts be expanded and evaluated. -
Congressman Moves to Repeal E-Rate Phone Tax as Illegal, Unnecessary
Opinion -While supportive of the goal of connecting schools and libraries to the Internet, Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) has introduced a bill in the U.S. -
School Lessons
Opinion -Lessons on Vouchers from Milwaukee Although the title of Tamar Lewin's March 27 New York Times article was "Few Clear Lessons from Nation's First School-Choice Program," her account of the Milwaukee voucher program suggests that two fundamental -
Long-term Care . . . or Long-term Government Dependency?
Opinion -If President Clinton gets his way, long-term health care will become long-term government dependency. He wants to spend $6.2 billion to provide a $1,000 annual tax break for individuals and families who need long-term nursing home care and chronic care. -
ESEA: Congress Must Answer the Hard Questions
Opinion -A leading education expert says Congress must answer some tough questions about the purpose of federal aid to education when it reauthorizes the $13 billion Elementary and Secondary Education Act later this year. -
History Lesson: Market-Based Schooling Is Best
Opinion -While defenders of public schools argue that opening K-12 education to competition and the profit motive would destroy public education, author Andrew J. -
And the Winners Are
Opinion -While reform candidates rarely have the upper hand in elections with low voter turnout, that was not the case in Milwaukee’s recent school board election.